On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
I think we can leave this evening with the words that Congresswoman Sewell has just said, and we thank her so very much, ``do our own work.'' That message should carry for whether we are Republicans or Democrats or Independents. Congresswoman Sewell, we look forward to doing our own work on the restoration of the Voting Rights Act, section 5, which you are leading and all of us have signed onto. We thank you so much for that eloquent statement and that statement of passion. Speaking of passion, it is my privilege to introduce a Member who has her own storied civil rights history, someone who has served as the Commissioner on the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and someone who has been in the trenches in civil rights, dealing with voting rights cases, dealing with the right to vote in her own District of Columbia. I think she will be the Florence Nightingale, she will be the champion battler; because I believe that this Delegate, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, will be successful as we fight for the voting rights of the District through her leadership. I yield to the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton).
